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He prospects gold and greenbacks A flushing salute Bathrooms are usually not too interesting, but this can't be said of one John on campus. To celebrate the bicentennial, Chris Schramm, a Western sophomore, and his Gamma suitemates have let their bathroom display their Americanism. The "Hancock John" is their tribute to our nation's birthday. After watching bicentennial advertisements on TV, Don Doust started joking around about decorating the bathroom in red, white and blue. Don and Gary Arnts each hung a large flag on the walls. The idea caught on, and the eight suitemates put together their "masterpiece." The wall behind the John is covered with pictures of our respected heroes — Kennedy, Ford and Nixon(?) to name a few. Possible additions to the "Hancock John" are toilet paper that looks like dollar bills and red stars painted on the toilet. Chris Schramm added there's "nothing cynical" about their project. "It was just something to do." by LOUIE PHILLIPS George Massie seems to know a lot about getting gold from creeks and green from wallets. Massie, 36, held the crowd of over 100 spellbound with his rapid, Southern-accent delivery. Even someone with a phonographic memory would be hard-pressed to record the spiel. The crowd came to Kovac's Restaurant in the Bellingham Mall Tuesday evening to get tips on prospecting. What they got was a heavy dose of patriotism, capitalism, mom and apple pie. Massie started explaining gold panning by describing himself as a "dumb ol' country boy." (He later admitted to this reporter that he had a degree in electrical engineering from UCLA). "You take the pan and fill it with material," Massie said. "Submerge it in quiet water. Take two hands and slurry it around." Then toss out the larger rocks and begin circular movement, panning down to about two teaspoons of black sand, he said. "Normally where you find gold, you'll find black sand," Massie said. "But you don't always find gold where you find black sand." Then came the pitch. For $10 the members of the audience were invited to fight "the bureaucracy" by joining the two-year-old Gold Prospector's Association of America of Eugene, Ore. "Let's bring some sanity back to the environmentalists," Massie said. "I think the politicians are put upon by the pressure groups and that's what we intend to be." Association members get a subscription to Gold Prospectors News, assorted patches, decals and a green plastic gold pan with "Chinese traps." These traps are small indentations along the side that catch heavy metal while the sand is washed away. "Any little flake you see is worth a dime at today's prices," Massie said. Once a pound of gold is collected, it can be sent to the smelter to be refined and pressed into ounce medallions. The smelter takes 20 per cent, Massie said, but the gold can be sold in Las Vegas for higher than London prices. Massie made it sound like it was unpatriotic not to prospect for gold. "Our currency is still based on gold no matter what Merrill, Lynch, Pierce or who — what's the name — says." Standing on stage, faded-patched blue jeans and open plaid shirt jacket with wide-lapelled white shirt, Massie continues his non-stop condemnation of the "IRS, DEQ, EPA" and so on. "I'm just like Reagan and Rockefeller. I he on my income tax. It's pretty hard to trace gold." But he warns the audience to be sneaky about cheating the government. Until intermission, Massie really had not misled the audience too much. But after the break he started talking about chemical ways of separating gold specks from sand. He introduced the chemical sodium cyanide as baking soda, and nobody questioned him. A check with Gary Lampman of chemistry faculty reveals the compound as "one of the materials used in the gas chamber." Chemistry students are required to be "very cautious" when using the chemical, Lampman said. Massie ends the evening by filling out a $100 check to Kovac's for the two-and-a-half hour rent of the room. m ^ Wweesstteerrnn . Front FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1975 VOL. 68 NO. 12 PSC questionnaire: missing some points by KEITH OLSON Tensions among Western's faculty over looming reductions in force have heightened with the first wave of questionnaires to program heads from the college's Program Study Committee (PSC). Concern has been voiced for what some faculty members consider overly rhetorical questions and, in some cases, questions not asked at all. "Mr. Olscamp's recommendation was for a non-partisan committee (to evaluate Western's programs), but on that committee are persons who have suggested that students not take courses outside the main college structure, i.e. traditional academicians who are very involved with the credentiality of people — what degrees they have, what have they published and what are their bibliographies," Reginald Butler, Ethnic Studies faculty member, said. Some of the questions [posed to the College of Ethnic Studies] are so rhetorical they're hardly answerable," Butler said. "In the past there has been a great deal of hostility to the College of Ethnic Studies which has worked against a relationship with the College of Arts and Sciences. When it comes to belt tightening, old programs have a vested interest, but we must forget that kind of dynamic conservativism," Butler said. All but one member of the PSC are past or present faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences. One is a Fairhaven faculty member. Jesse Hiraoka, dean of ethnic studies said, "Some of the perceptions (in the questionnaire) seem to be quite dated." He commented on two questions asked by PSC: How do you account for the large turnover in your-minority faculty, and how do you explain the declining enrollment in ethnic studies? Hiraoka said there is not a large turnover of minority faculty in ethnic studies, and enrollment has levelled off, not continued to decline. Figures from the Registrar indicate the number of students joining the College of Ethnic Studies has increased over the last three years: 76 students Fall quarter '73, 291 students Fall '74, and 302 students Fall 75. Both Hiraoka and Butler said enrollment as a criteria for evaluation may be deceptive because some programs on campus would possibly not have as large enrollment if some of their courses were not listed among the General College Requirements. Ruth Weiner, dean of Huxley College, said she felt some questions (posed to Huxley) were rhetorical and answerable if one read the general college catalog. Though saying she did not feel any of the questions were unfair, she said she wondered how some could be applied as bases for judgment of Huxley's programs. Two questions she cited were: "Are there differences of opinion on your faculty concerning Huxley's curriculum, and are Huxley's courses based on prerequisites in the hard sciences? "The questions do not make it clear which criteria are being applied by the committee," Weiner said. Among the questions Weiner said she thought were pertinent, but not asked were: What has been your enrollment pattern? What are faculty loads? What are your distribution problems in regard to faculty and students? In addition, she said she expected some questions about the aquatic studies program. Weiner contacted PSC chairman Ralph Thompson in regard to those questions and was invited to include all information-she felt to be pertinent and possibly overlooked and send it along with the questionnaire. Though not all the questionnaires have been sent out, Thompson said he already had received other calls from program heads about PSC questions by Tuesday. Admitting that some of the questions posed by the committee may have been rhetorical, Thompson said they are all non-the-less questions in program areas about which the committee is unclear. "If the questions are seemingly offensive to program heads, we regret that, but it's understandable," he said. "Every one of them is going to be concerned with the type of questions asked and the way they're asked. Some questions may seem to come out of the blue. " "However we have examined a great many documents on the college's programs and some questions are for clarification to see if certain trends have continued, or if assertions about various programs have changed regarding their purposes, possibilities for future development and possible course overlaps. " -."It is not our intent to harass any department. We are not looking at any unit or department of the college at the expense of another. The questions will be different for each program, according to the information needed," he said. "If that information can't be obtained in written form, we'll have to send someone personally to that department to get the information." Dean of Fairhaven Joe Bettis, whose faculty collectively reviewed Fairhaven's PSC questionnaire and endorsed all questions as fair and relevant, said, "The committee did not share with me what criteria nor purpose or intention of the questions. "I feel the PSC is perfectly aware of differences among the colleges and departments. I assume they know what they're looking for," he said. Bettis said it would be unfair to challenge their judgement before the final recommendations are made. "Then, not only the negative recommendations will have been backed up with facts, but positive recommendations as well," he said. Itiside The death of a tavern The Kulshan Tavern in Bellingham's South Side has finally succumbed to progress. Its neighbor, The Fairhaven, has only two weeks left at its present location. See pg. 5
Object Description
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Title | Western Front - 1975 November 7 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 68, no. 12 |
Date Published (User-Friendly) | November 7, 1975 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1975-11-07 |
Year Published | 1975 |
Decades | 1970-1979 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Editor | Dennis Ritchie, editor; Becky Fox, managing editor; Greg Cohen, news editor; Carolyn Craig, arts & entertainment; Roy Tanaka, sports editor; Marshall Brown, copy editor; Suki Dardarian, copy editor; Tim Johnson; Dick Milne; Keith Olson; David Cappaert, photo editor |
Staff | Louie Phillips, production manager; Tom Ellison, assistant production; Duane Wolfe, business manager; Paul Tiffany, ad graphics; Reporters: Steve Adams; Brock Arnold; Nancy Aust; Ricki Beckelman; Gary Bertram; Tori Bonneville; Frank Brannan; Amy Bristow; Sharon Burnett; David Cappaert; Rick Clark; Bob Coale; Kay Cressey; Mike DeFelice; Jim Eaton; Scott Fergerson; Barbara Felver; Brian Fink; Margaret Godfrey; Don Gregory; Vickie Haugen; Bruce Hayes; Susie Hearn; Kyung Sun Hong; Greg Hoofnagle; Robin Hovies; Mona Johnson; Janica King; Linda Lang; Janet Larson; Kirby Larson; Erik Magnuson; Harry McFarland; Terry McGuire; Sue Meyers; Kathi Morod; Dave Neff; Lori Nelles; Julie Nelson; Mike Nelson; Rick Newberg; Karen Ostrander; Carolyn Price; Al Raines; Bud Rechterman; Heather Richendrfer; John Robinson; Liz Rust; Rex Rystedt; Bob Slone; Kimberly Smith; Val Sosnow; Julie Steinberg; Connie Tedrow; Lynn Truckey; Tony Volchok; Barbara Weiss; Wende White |
Photographer | Randy Green; Kyung Sun Hong; Ray Hoy; Bill McCormick; Rex Rystedt; Karen Ostrander; Dave Cappaert |
Faculty Advisor | Schwartz, Jim |
Article Titles | He prospects gold and greenbacks / by Louie Phillips (p.1) -- Flushing salute (p.1) -- PSC questionnaire: missing some points / by Keith Olson (p.1) -- Speakers stress women in 'men's jobs / by Kirby Miltenberger (p.2) -- Education college gets second try / by Harry McFarland (p.2) -- Death penalty back, Init. 314 is defeated (p.2) -- Changes slim for beer and wine on campus / by Barb Felver (p.3) -- Deans' council clarifies roles, agenda / by Liz Rust (p.3) -- New budget allows completion of projects (p.3) -- Opinion (p.4) -- Letters (p.4) -- Arts & entertainment (p.5) -- Kulshan Tavern passes on to fond memories / by Bob Speed (p.5) -- Large geometric shapes to wander campus (p.5) -- Soundcheck (p.6) -- Even the bathroom is friendly at the Picture Show / by Barb Weiss (p.6-7) -- New theatre group to produce 'Glass Menagerie' (p.6-7) -- [Two unidentified actors on stage] (p.6-7) -- Film series (p.7) -- Outatowners (p.8) -- There is pleasure in 'Trouble in Tahiti' (p.8) -- Shorts & sidelights / by Linda Lang (p.9) -- Workers criticize IWC / by Ray Hoy (p.9) -- Sports (p.10) -- Harriers in make or break district meet (p.10) -- Top spikers here for tourney (p.10) -- Sailing club primes for regattas (p.10) -- Stickers win 2 of 4 at weekend tourney (p.10) -- Classified (p.10) -- Athlete of the week / by Rex Rystedt (p.11) -- Sports Shorts (p.11) -- Production equipment enables KUGS expansion (p.12) -- Geology club open to all (p.12) -- Fairhaven samples student opinion on Costigan class (p.12) |
Photographs | [Chris Schramm] (p.1) -- Saundra Taylor, Evalyn Taylor, Robert Marx, Don Lajoy (p.2) -- [Unidentified tavern customer] (p.5) -- [Bobby Burns points to the Kulshan Tavern] (p.5) -- [Unidentified student sitting on sculpture] (p.5) -- Jerry and Melanie Kuhn (p.7) -- Bob Taylor (p.11) |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 41 x 28 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Identifier | WF_19751107.pdf |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
Description
Title | Western Front - 1975 November 7 - Page 1 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 68, no. 12 |
Date Published (User-Friendly) | November 7, 1975 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1975-11-07 |
Year Published | 1975 |
Decades | 1970-1979 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Editor | Dennis Ritchie, editor; Becky Fox, managing editor; Greg Cohen, news editor; Carolyn Craig, arts & entertainment; Roy Tanaka, sports editor; Marshall Brown, copy editor; Suki Dardarian, copy editor; Tim Johnson; Dick Milne; Keith Olson; David Cappaert, photo editor |
Staff | Louie Phillips, production manager; Tom Ellison, assistant production; Duane Wolfe, business manager; Paul Tiffany, ad graphics; Reporters: Steve Adams; Brock Arnold; Nancy Aust; Ricki Beckelman; Gary Bertram; Tori Bonneville; Frank Brannan; Amy Bristow; Sharon Burnett; David Cappaert; Rick Clark; Bob Coale; Kay Cressey; Mike DeFelice; Jim Eaton; Scott Fergerson; Barbara Felver; Brian Fink; Margaret Godfrey; Don Gregory; Vickie Haugen; Bruce Hayes; Susie Hearn; Kyung Sun Hong; Greg Hoofnagle; Robin Hovies; Mona Johnson; Janica King; Linda Lang; Janet Larson; Kirby Larson; Erik Magnuson; Harry McFarland; Terry McGuire; Sue Meyers; Kathi Morod; Dave Neff; Lori Nelles; Julie Nelson; Mike Nelson; Rick Newberg; Karen Ostrander; Carolyn Price; Al Raines; Bud Rechterman; Heather Richendrfer; John Robinson; Liz Rust; Rex Rystedt; Bob Slone; Kimberly Smith; Val Sosnow; Julie Steinberg; Connie Tedrow; Lynn Truckey; Tony Volchok; Barbara Weiss; Wende White |
Faculty Advisor | Schwartz, Jim |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 41 x 28 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Identifier | WF_19751107.pdf |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Full Text | He prospects gold and greenbacks A flushing salute Bathrooms are usually not too interesting, but this can't be said of one John on campus. To celebrate the bicentennial, Chris Schramm, a Western sophomore, and his Gamma suitemates have let their bathroom display their Americanism. The "Hancock John" is their tribute to our nation's birthday. After watching bicentennial advertisements on TV, Don Doust started joking around about decorating the bathroom in red, white and blue. Don and Gary Arnts each hung a large flag on the walls. The idea caught on, and the eight suitemates put together their "masterpiece." The wall behind the John is covered with pictures of our respected heroes — Kennedy, Ford and Nixon(?) to name a few. Possible additions to the "Hancock John" are toilet paper that looks like dollar bills and red stars painted on the toilet. Chris Schramm added there's "nothing cynical" about their project. "It was just something to do." by LOUIE PHILLIPS George Massie seems to know a lot about getting gold from creeks and green from wallets. Massie, 36, held the crowd of over 100 spellbound with his rapid, Southern-accent delivery. Even someone with a phonographic memory would be hard-pressed to record the spiel. The crowd came to Kovac's Restaurant in the Bellingham Mall Tuesday evening to get tips on prospecting. What they got was a heavy dose of patriotism, capitalism, mom and apple pie. Massie started explaining gold panning by describing himself as a "dumb ol' country boy." (He later admitted to this reporter that he had a degree in electrical engineering from UCLA). "You take the pan and fill it with material," Massie said. "Submerge it in quiet water. Take two hands and slurry it around." Then toss out the larger rocks and begin circular movement, panning down to about two teaspoons of black sand, he said. "Normally where you find gold, you'll find black sand," Massie said. "But you don't always find gold where you find black sand." Then came the pitch. For $10 the members of the audience were invited to fight "the bureaucracy" by joining the two-year-old Gold Prospector's Association of America of Eugene, Ore. "Let's bring some sanity back to the environmentalists," Massie said. "I think the politicians are put upon by the pressure groups and that's what we intend to be." Association members get a subscription to Gold Prospectors News, assorted patches, decals and a green plastic gold pan with "Chinese traps." These traps are small indentations along the side that catch heavy metal while the sand is washed away. "Any little flake you see is worth a dime at today's prices," Massie said. Once a pound of gold is collected, it can be sent to the smelter to be refined and pressed into ounce medallions. The smelter takes 20 per cent, Massie said, but the gold can be sold in Las Vegas for higher than London prices. Massie made it sound like it was unpatriotic not to prospect for gold. "Our currency is still based on gold no matter what Merrill, Lynch, Pierce or who — what's the name — says." Standing on stage, faded-patched blue jeans and open plaid shirt jacket with wide-lapelled white shirt, Massie continues his non-stop condemnation of the "IRS, DEQ, EPA" and so on. "I'm just like Reagan and Rockefeller. I he on my income tax. It's pretty hard to trace gold." But he warns the audience to be sneaky about cheating the government. Until intermission, Massie really had not misled the audience too much. But after the break he started talking about chemical ways of separating gold specks from sand. He introduced the chemical sodium cyanide as baking soda, and nobody questioned him. A check with Gary Lampman of chemistry faculty reveals the compound as "one of the materials used in the gas chamber." Chemistry students are required to be "very cautious" when using the chemical, Lampman said. Massie ends the evening by filling out a $100 check to Kovac's for the two-and-a-half hour rent of the room. m ^ Wweesstteerrnn . Front FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1975 VOL. 68 NO. 12 PSC questionnaire: missing some points by KEITH OLSON Tensions among Western's faculty over looming reductions in force have heightened with the first wave of questionnaires to program heads from the college's Program Study Committee (PSC). Concern has been voiced for what some faculty members consider overly rhetorical questions and, in some cases, questions not asked at all. "Mr. Olscamp's recommendation was for a non-partisan committee (to evaluate Western's programs), but on that committee are persons who have suggested that students not take courses outside the main college structure, i.e. traditional academicians who are very involved with the credentiality of people — what degrees they have, what have they published and what are their bibliographies," Reginald Butler, Ethnic Studies faculty member, said. Some of the questions [posed to the College of Ethnic Studies] are so rhetorical they're hardly answerable," Butler said. "In the past there has been a great deal of hostility to the College of Ethnic Studies which has worked against a relationship with the College of Arts and Sciences. When it comes to belt tightening, old programs have a vested interest, but we must forget that kind of dynamic conservativism," Butler said. All but one member of the PSC are past or present faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences. One is a Fairhaven faculty member. Jesse Hiraoka, dean of ethnic studies said, "Some of the perceptions (in the questionnaire) seem to be quite dated." He commented on two questions asked by PSC: How do you account for the large turnover in your-minority faculty, and how do you explain the declining enrollment in ethnic studies? Hiraoka said there is not a large turnover of minority faculty in ethnic studies, and enrollment has levelled off, not continued to decline. Figures from the Registrar indicate the number of students joining the College of Ethnic Studies has increased over the last three years: 76 students Fall quarter '73, 291 students Fall '74, and 302 students Fall 75. Both Hiraoka and Butler said enrollment as a criteria for evaluation may be deceptive because some programs on campus would possibly not have as large enrollment if some of their courses were not listed among the General College Requirements. Ruth Weiner, dean of Huxley College, said she felt some questions (posed to Huxley) were rhetorical and answerable if one read the general college catalog. Though saying she did not feel any of the questions were unfair, she said she wondered how some could be applied as bases for judgment of Huxley's programs. Two questions she cited were: "Are there differences of opinion on your faculty concerning Huxley's curriculum, and are Huxley's courses based on prerequisites in the hard sciences? "The questions do not make it clear which criteria are being applied by the committee," Weiner said. Among the questions Weiner said she thought were pertinent, but not asked were: What has been your enrollment pattern? What are faculty loads? What are your distribution problems in regard to faculty and students? In addition, she said she expected some questions about the aquatic studies program. Weiner contacted PSC chairman Ralph Thompson in regard to those questions and was invited to include all information-she felt to be pertinent and possibly overlooked and send it along with the questionnaire. Though not all the questionnaires have been sent out, Thompson said he already had received other calls from program heads about PSC questions by Tuesday. Admitting that some of the questions posed by the committee may have been rhetorical, Thompson said they are all non-the-less questions in program areas about which the committee is unclear. "If the questions are seemingly offensive to program heads, we regret that, but it's understandable," he said. "Every one of them is going to be concerned with the type of questions asked and the way they're asked. Some questions may seem to come out of the blue. " "However we have examined a great many documents on the college's programs and some questions are for clarification to see if certain trends have continued, or if assertions about various programs have changed regarding their purposes, possibilities for future development and possible course overlaps. " -."It is not our intent to harass any department. We are not looking at any unit or department of the college at the expense of another. The questions will be different for each program, according to the information needed," he said. "If that information can't be obtained in written form, we'll have to send someone personally to that department to get the information." Dean of Fairhaven Joe Bettis, whose faculty collectively reviewed Fairhaven's PSC questionnaire and endorsed all questions as fair and relevant, said, "The committee did not share with me what criteria nor purpose or intention of the questions. "I feel the PSC is perfectly aware of differences among the colleges and departments. I assume they know what they're looking for," he said. Bettis said it would be unfair to challenge their judgement before the final recommendations are made. "Then, not only the negative recommendations will have been backed up with facts, but positive recommendations as well," he said. Itiside The death of a tavern The Kulshan Tavern in Bellingham's South Side has finally succumbed to progress. Its neighbor, The Fairhaven, has only two weeks left at its present location. See pg. 5 |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
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